The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-25

GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE Celestial Government has cancelled
the banking and other concess ions made
to Count Mitkiewicz and an American
syndicate.
on the 18th Joseph j. Segner, a German
attending business college at Omaha,
Neb., blow out his brains because his step
father would not pay him 500 which he
owed him. The young man wanted money
to pay college expenses and marry his
sweetheart.
THE packing house OF the Han neock
Chemical Works at Hancock, Mich, was
blown up on the 10th and six men killed.
The building was utterly demolished.
THE steamer Wah- Yeung was destroyed
by fire recently in the Canton river.
About four hundred persons are supposed
to have been lost:
IN the Lingg inquest at Chicago the
coroner's jury found that he came to his
death by "the explosion Of bomb, said
bomb being exploded by his own hand
with suicidal intent"
OK the 10th Mr.. Jennings, foreman on
the high bridge being built at Dubuque,
Ia, while lifting pin OF iron on the top
Of tho pier on shore, stumbled and fell a
distance Of thirty feet, and was painfully
injured. II Is thought he VIII recover.
OK the night of the 18th a special
through freight train ran into the rear
end Of the regular through freight on the
Vandalia road, near Seeleyville, Ind, and
a caboose and four box-cars filed with
merchandise were wrecked, and, with the
speciarengine, were totally burne d.
THE last fiscal year was marked by
many casua lties in the railway mail
service. There were 23l derailments OF
wrecks Of postal trains. Three postal
clerks were killed, 45 seriously and Y
slightly injured
On the 18th IA most remarkable fight oc.
Cured near Sequin island, of the At
lantic coast, between seamen and a fin.
back whale, three seamen being killed.
on the 18th Mrs. J. T. Hastiey, of Ne
braska City, Neb., committed suicide by
taking morphine. Cause, domestic un
happiness.
BY the falling Of the walls of the Ever
son building at Syracuse, n. Y, on the
18th, two workmen we're killed and another
is missing.
on the 18th Dominicl5 Massat fell 90C
feet down tho Hecla shaft of the Calumet
and Hecla mine at Ishpeming, Mich, and
was instantly killed. He leaves a large
family in destitute circumstances.
OK the 10Th Captain Green and two
miners foil from tho top OF the shaft house
in the Anvil mines at Bessemer, Mich, to
O 4
were instantly killed and Captain Green
is not expected TO recover.
On the 10th fire at Bloomington, Neb.
destroyed n large dry goods and clothing
store, the First National Bank building
: and contents, hardware store, drug
store, post-office and contents, and the
Guard office and contents. Loss, S60 600
insurance, $4,000
BY an explosion OF gasoline at Philadel
! phia, on the night of the 18th, in til,
/ building used by the Edison Electri,
/ Light Company as a storage house foi
| tools and gasoline lamps, used by th'
workmen, fourteen men were seriously
| and it is feared some of them fatally
/ burned.
| OK the 18th a scaffold at tho power
! house Of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Traction
| railway fell. Four men were thrown {,
/ the ground, a distance of about thirty
| feet, and two Of them. J. Byron ant
| James Ogden, were fatally crushed. Th
/ others, J. Conrad and +. Zimmerman, sus
/ tanned painful cuts aud bruises.
! A Destructive fire occurred at Ludlow
/ KY, near Cincinnati, on the 18th, tn
loss amounting to $i55,000.
( LETTERS have come TO light showing con
| clusively that Captain Mills, the DetrOi
/ (Mich) tug-mastor, first murdered Mrs
Rising and then shot himself
A SHOOTING affray occurred in a salool
| az Gienwood Springs, Col, ON the 18th
between Frank Smith and Charles Baker
| gamblers. Smith viii die. During th
( shooting a bystauder named James Mat
tison was instantly killed. by a stray bul
let. Baker is in jail
AN engine and one coach jumped th
track on the South branch OF the Vandali
railroad near Brazil, Ind. on the 18th
! The passengers barely escaped before tn,
coach was consumed by fire. Enginee
1 Yetton was killed aud Brakeman Robert
/ son seriously injured. The road is operat
ed by the Evansville & indianapolis Com
| pany.